2WA Consulting Podcast

Our latest podcast focuses on three areas of management that we have found are of the greatest importance for our clients over the past 13 months. The Covid pandemic forced businesses to operate in very different ways, by having people work from home where possible and then connecting them through technology, often with uneven results. The ability - and inability - to direct staff in a decentralized work model exposed weaknesses in many managers. By utilizing three management concepts - Delegation, Relationship Building, Culture of Accountability - any manager can dramatically improve the performance of their department as well as confidence in their management ability. Join us for an informal conversation that will provide plenty of tips, techniques and approaches that will improve how you manage.

Cracks are beginning to show in the work from home model. Working from home has revealed to managers the many benefits of flexible work. It’s clear that we can’t go back to the ways things were, but how do we return to working face-to-face? In Episode 7 of the ‘How to Manage’ podcast, Michael and Anne go over 6 factors to consider when thinking about going back to work face-to-face. What is required in this new atmosphere is a hybrid model that challenges managers to prepare, listen and be strategic about what aspects of remote work to keep and what aspects of office work to return to.

Countless hours and billions of dollars are wasted in meetings. It's a vital part of an organization's day-to-day that requires constant improvement. We've both come off a season of facilitating a lot of meetings and thought we'd try a more stream of conscious format with this episode. Listen to real-life stories and advice, helpful tools and practical steps for how you can have more effective meetings with your team.

Is your team failing to reach its targets? In this podcast episode, we discuss all things team performance, share some real-life advice and walk you through practices you can implement right now to increase team performance.

Onboarding is often a single day (or even half-day) affair, showing new hires around the office and giving them the necessary logins. But, as Michael and Anne explain in episode 4, onboarding is a process that should begin in the interview stage. Listen closely as Michael and Anne share relevant tips and explain the onboarding process from start to finish.

Change is inevitable. As managers, we can't control the fact that change is going to come to our organization. But we can, however, influence how we handle it personally and how we help our team handle it. In, 'Leading Through Change', Michael and Anne discuss how to personal approach change, how to support your team and how to lead your company through change. In this episode, you will learn helpful tips (like the 5 Ps of change management) and behaviours to avoid.

This bonus minisode focuses on, The Marathon Effect, a phenomenon that occurs during change inside an organization. Like a marathon, an organization has some employees who run at the front of change and start running through the change right away. But there're other employees who make up the rear of the pack and they don't start the change for a long time. Listen to this bonus minisode to understand why this is important to consider.

In episode 2 of the 2WA Consulting podcast, Michael and Anne discuss the repercussions of micromanaging and being a superworker. When managers focus solely on getting tasks complete they hurt their teams, their careers and create more work for themselves than they need to be doing. Through the podcast, managers can learn the 4 Ds of balancing management and day-to-day functions and free themselves to think more strategically.

In episode 1 of the 2WA Consulting podcast Michael and Anne discuss how to motivate employees. Even our best team members go through slumps or have off months when they need a little kick or push from their manager, learn the 8 ways to motivate employees in this insightful podcast.